Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
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